Keyboard shortcuts inside applications

How do I set up keyboard short-cuts?

To set up global shortcuts (which work whatever you're doing) you need to have a ROX-Filer pinboard or panel active ROX-Session can set these up for you). Any item on a pinboard or panel can have a keyboard shortcut set for it by choosing 'Edit Item' from the popup menu.

You can also set keyboard shortcuts for use in filer windows (and some other applications) like this:

• Open the menu.
• Point at a menu item, but don't click on it.
• Press the key.
• Close the menu.

Keys are automatically saved when the filer quits.

The GTK developers have decided to disable this feature by default. To turn it on:

• If you are running ROX-Session it will be on by default. It can use controlled using the Keyboard configuration applet.
• If you are running GNOME, use gconf-editor to turn on the /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels option.
• If you are using some other XSettings manager, you will have to find how it lets you configure this (anyone know how to do this with xfce-settings-show?)
• If you are not running an XSettings manager, you can instead add this line to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file:
  gtk-can-change-accels = 1

I use SuSE 9 and it still doesn't work!

You also need to create an empty file called ~/.no-qtrc-to-gtkrc-mapping, then log out and log back in again.